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“River of Names” is part of a collection of short stories in the book Trash published in 1988, written by Dorothy Allison. It is the basis for the later novel Bastard out of Carolina. In her powerful writing, Allison draws on her own harrowing childhood in 1950s Greenville, South Carolina: the stigma of gr ....
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.... images that come to mind: “broken teeth, torn overalls, and the dirt.” She does not gloss over the ugliness of this poverty. Her words are not simple, but hard edged truths. Dorothy Allison speaks through this narrator with unflinching honesty about a world where pain and love intersect.
“Stealing was a way to pass the time. Things we needed things we didn’t, for the nerve of it, the anger, the need. But sooner or later, we all got caught. Then it was, When are
you going to learn?”
Allison’s characters are ba ....
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